Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty-three men registered in the Freshman class in 1927, an enrolment which, under the circumstances, was larger than expected and which compared very favorably with that of other institutions with similar admission requirements...
...United States. But it has recently been discovered that numbers, in themselves meaningless, can carry great significance if arranged in proper sequence. Beginning with several changes in next year's "Announcement of Courses of Instruction" the History Department has decided to have low numbers signify elementary courses while the larger numbers represent progressively more advanced courses...
Just as in the meetings of its larger, brethren, there have been discussions over wet and dry planks, but the delegates did not devote themselves too seriously to work. For a demonstration of some practical politics they investigated establishments where their doctrines were being applied, attended dinners given in their honor, and between times met to consider the possibilities for nomination open to them...
...from production into Oil's subtler phases-transportation, refining, marketing. He formed the Sinclair Oil & Refining Co. out of seven small enterprises and built his own pipe-line to the Great Lakes. In 1917 he formed the Sinclair Gulf Corp. with his own fleet of ships. While larger companies were getting War contracts, he, an alert independent, developed a Latin-American trade. In 1919 he let his friends in on various "ground floors" of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp., a towering organization of world-wide schemes...
...larger radio interests were displeased with the amendments Congress put into the Federal radio law last fortnight, they were better pleased by the Senate's action last week in confirming all four of President Coolidge's appointments to the revivified Federal Radio Commission...